The Coming of the Colonists (_continued_)--MacDonell Attempts to Carry Out the Rights of Feudalism on Red River--Nor’westers Resent--The Colony Destroyed and Dispersed--Selkirk to the Rescue--Lajimoniere’s Long Voyage--Clarke in Athabasca 141 CHAPTER XXVIII The Coming of the Colonists (_continued_)--Governor Semple and Twenty Colonists are Butchered at Seven Oaks--Selkirk to the Rescue Captures Fort William and Sweeps the Nor’westers from the Field--The Suffering of the Settlers--At Last Selkirk Sees the Promised Land at Red River 166 CHAPTER XXIX Both Companies Make a Dash to Capture Athabasca Whence Came the Most Valuable Furs--Robertson Overland to Montreal, Tried and Acquitted, Leads a Brigade to Athabasca--He is Tricked by the Nor’westers, but Tricks Them in Turn--The Union of the Companies--Sir George Simpson, Governor 202 PART IV CHAPTER XXX Reconstruction (_continued_)--Nicholas Garry, the Deputy Governor, Comes Out to Reorganize the United Companies--More Colonists from Switzerland--The Rocky Mountain Brigades--Ross of Okanogan 235 CHAPTER XXXI Journals of Peter Skene Ogden, Explorer and Fur Trader, Over the Regions now Known as Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Utah--He Relieves Ashley’s Men of 10,000 Beaver--He Finds Nevada--He Discovers Mt. Shasta--He Tricks the Americans at Salt Lake 261 CHAPTER XXXII McLoughlin’s Transmontane Empire (_continued_)--Douglas’ Adventures in New Caledonia, How He Punishes Murder and is Himself Almost Murdered--Little Yale of the Lower Fraser--Black’s Death at Kamloops--How Tod Outwits Conspiracy--The Company’s Operations in California and Sandwich Islands and Alaska--Why did Rae Kill Himself in San Francisco?--The Secret Diplomacy 304 CHAPTER XXXIII The Passing of the Company--The Coming of the Colonists to Oregon--The Founding of Victoria North of the Boundary--Why the H. B. C. Gave Up Oregon--Misrule of Vancouver Island--McLoughlin’s Retirement 352 CHAPTER XXXIV The Passing of the Company 387 ILLUSTRATIONS Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE Map showing Fort Chippewyan and MacKenzie River 48 Alexander MacKenzie 56 The Ramparts of MacKenzie River 64 Map of the Northwest Territories 80 Map--Fraser to Tide Water 96